VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 475 501
Rank change year-on-year -103 +26 +73
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 92 75 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.73% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 56 37
10th Percentile £393 £483 £435
25th Percentile £483 £531 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £560
90th Percentile £734 £675 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £609 £538
% change year-on-year -11.70% +13.26% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile £69.44 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,739 10,253 11,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.20% 31.32% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,191 6,335 7,317
10th Percentile £350 £289 £313
25th Percentile £435 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.32% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,267 823 780
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.98 £14.50
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.23 £21.37
Median hourly rate £48.84 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.19% -44.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £72.60 £53.63 £67.01
90th Percentile £87.96 £73.75 £77.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £48.37
% change year-on-year +89.03% -48.00% -6.78%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -98 84 £570 -5.00% 24
UK excluding London -90 72 £538 -11.70% 16
Work from Home -40 34 £588 +5.62% 12
South East -56 30 £610 -6.15% 2
North of England -61 13 £485 +7.78% 2
London -65 11 £625 +13.64% 9
North West -30 10 £484 +38.29% 1
West Midlands -36 10 £425 +16.44% 1
Midlands -53 10 £425 +16.44% 2
East of England -15 9 £507 -6.11% 2
South West -64 8 £644 +10.04% 7
Yorkshire -42 3 £519 +3.80% 1
Scotland - 2 £298 - 1

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.26%) Apache
1 3 (3.26%) CloudStack
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) Azure
2 19 (20.65%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) GitHub
3 9 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.43%) GCP
4 5 (5.43%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.35%) IaaS
6 3 (3.26%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.17%) Datadog
8 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.61%) VSAN
2 18 (19.57%) DNS
3 16 (17.39%) Firewall
4 10 (10.87%) DHCP
4 10 (10.87%) NAS
4 10 (10.87%) SAN
5 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.61%) WAN
6 6 (6.52%) LAN
6 6 (6.52%) VPN
7 5 (5.43%) SD-WAN
8 4 (4.35%) BGP
8 4 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (4.35%) IPsec
8 4 (4.35%) MPLS
8 4 (4.35%) OSPF
8 4 (4.35%) VLAN
9 3 (3.26%) BIG-IP
9 3 (3.26%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) VMware Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Senior
4 11 (11.96%) Architect
5 10 (10.87%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) VMware Specialist
6 9 (9.78%) Wintel Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Administrator
9 6 (6.52%) JavaScript Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Lead
9 6 (6.52%) Network Architect
9 6 (6.52%) PowerShell Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Lead Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.43%) Technical Leader
11 4 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.17%) OpenGL
3 2 (2.17%) Qt
4 1 (1.09%) JSON
4 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.91%) Data Centre
2 20 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (15.22%) Replication
4 13 (14.13%) Private Cloud
5 11 (11.96%) Public Cloud
6 8 (8.70%) Clustering
7 7 (7.61%) Cloud Native
8 5 (5.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (3.26%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (3.26%) EMC VNX
10 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (2.17%) CUDA
11 2 (2.17%) PKI
12 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (1.09%) Driving Licence
12 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.78%) Windows
2 27 (29.35%) Windows Server
3 17 (18.48%) Linux
4 5 (5.43%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (5.43%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.17%) VMS
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) Disaster Recovery
2 23 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (21.74%) High Availability
4 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.57%) Capacity Planning
5 18 (19.57%) Network Virtualisation
6 17 (18.48%) Project Delivery
7 14 (15.22%) DevOps
7 14 (15.22%) ITIL
7 14 (15.22%) Migration
8 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
9 12 (13.04%) Agile
10 10 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.78%) Business Continuity
11 9 (9.78%) Load Balancing
12 8 (8.70%) Data Centre Operations
12 8 (8.70%) User Experience
12 8 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) PowerShell
2 34 (36.96%) Python
3 17 (18.48%) JavaScript
4 14 (15.22%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 41 (44.57%) SC Cleared
3 31 (33.70%) VCAP
4 26 (28.26%) DV Cleared
5 23 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (17.39%) MCSE
7 14 (15.22%) Azure Certification
7 14 (15.22%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (11.96%) MCSA
9 10 (10.87%) CCNP
10 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
11 7 (7.61%) Degree
12 6 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (4.35%) CCNA
13 4 (4.35%) RHCA
14 3 (3.26%) CCA
14 3 (3.26%) CCIE
14 3 (3.26%) Citrix Certification
14 3 (3.26%) NCDA
14 3 (3.26%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.35%) NCSC
2 3 (3.26%) SLA
3 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 65 (70.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 39 (42.39%) vSphere
4 36 (39.13%) VMware NSX
5 14 (15.22%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (14.13%) Active Directory
6 13 (14.13%) Hyper-V
7 8 (8.70%) Docker
8 4 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (3.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (3.26%) SRDF
10 2 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.17%) NFS
10 2 (2.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (44.57%) vCenter Server
2 36 (39.13%) Ansible
3 20 (21.74%) vRealize
4 19 (20.65%) Kubernetes
5 11 (11.96%) PowerCLI
6 8 (8.70%) vMotion
7 6 (6.52%) SCCM
8 5 (5.43%) Grafana
8 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
9 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (4.35%) Podman
10 3 (3.26%) Check_MK
10 3 (3.26%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (3.26%) SCOM
10 3 (3.26%) SnapMirror
11 2 (2.17%) Argo
11 2 (2.17%) Istio
11 2 (2.17%) Packer
11 2 (2.17%) SnapVault
11 2 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 92 (100.00%) VMware
2 29 (31.52%) Microsoft
3 23 (25.00%) Cisco
4 12 (13.04%) Broadcom
5 8 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 7 (7.61%) 3PAR
7 5 (5.43%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.43%) NetApp
7 5 (5.43%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.43%) Veeam
8 4 (4.35%) Citrix
8 4 (4.35%) Google
8 4 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (4.35%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.26%) Brocade
9 3 (3.26%) Commvault
9 3 (3.26%) F5
9 3 (3.26%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.26%) SaltStack
9 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow